February 2011
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In one of the keynote addresses from the Hauenstein Center conference, Bruce Thornton applies lessons taken from the reign of Philip II of Macedon:
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Adrian Murdoch brings the ‘Year of the Four Emperors’ to an end with a rather competent fellow: Vespasian: Emperors of Rome
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pridie kalendas martias Amburbium — a ‘moveable feast’ which may or may not have actually been held on this day, but does seem to have happened near the end of February. A sacrificial procession was led around the boundaries of the city as a rite of purification. 509 B.C. — During a major attempt by…
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As is my wont, this a.m. I woke up early to put together my Explorator newsletter and, as is its wont lately, my Internet connection was down. So I flip on the TV and am idly flipping through channels when I hit the Canadian version of the Shopping Channel, which had its ‘coin show’ on.…
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There’s not much ClassCon in this one, other than the connection to the guy who did that thing with those marbles — but there’s some CanCon, and so we’ll jump at the opportunity to mix Canadian history with Classical, no matter how tenuous the link. In any event, the guy at the centre of this…
rogue classicism 